Word: bets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minnesota is usually stronger in the second half of a season as well as of a game. Stimulated by last week's scare, it is now, according to most experts, an even-money bet to get through its fourth successive undefeated season. To do so, after Michigan, Minnesota must beat Purdue, Northwestern, Iowa, Texas and Wisconsin...
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...Kursumlija, Yugoslavia a hungry, unemployed man won a bet of 20 dinars (40?) by swallowing two Belgrade newspapers...
Stacked Deck. Hardly had Nominee Landon placed his bet, however, when the Democratic Party stacked the deck against him. On the day he made his announcement in Topeka, agents of the U. S. Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures appeared at Republican State Committee headquarters in Augusta, demanded a list of its campaign contributors. The sole, non-partisan duty of this Senate Committee is to ferret out corruption. Day later one of its Democratic members, Washington's Schwellenbach, telephoned Democratic headquarters with news of some incorrupt but exciting discoveries...
...vote for the New Deal" to "A vote for Brann was a vote for Brann." But Republicans would have to talk loud & fast about their impressive clean sweep to convince the nation that Maine had not simply proved itself to be Maine, that Alf M. Landon had won his bet...